Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Socie, Paperback - Steven

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This is the first English translation of the book The World as Space and Time written by the great Russian physicist Alexander Friedmann who first ...

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Introduces advanced undergraduates to Riemannian geometry and mathematical general relativity. The overall strategy of the book is to explain the c...

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Pioneering work on bud and plant shapes, indicating there are universal laws which guide an organism's growth into predetermined patterns.

Dedicated to the centennial anniversary of Minkowski's discovery of spacetime, this volume contains papers, most presented at the Third Internation...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Steven NovickIllustration(s): 36 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 310Collection: Chapman & Hall/CR...

Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Tomasz (Reader in Modern history, University of St Andrews) KamusellaIllustration(s): 42 Map...

William Thurston's work has had a profound influence on mathematics. He connected whole mathematical subjects in entirely new ways and changed the ...

Publisher: Goose Lane EditionsAuthor(s): Andrew HunterNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 228 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

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A collection of essays that rethinks what constitutes materiality. These efforts are encapsulated by a rewriting of the Derridean axiom, 'there is ...

Contributor(s): Author: Elie WieselThe Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)A Play by Elie WieselTranslated by Marion Wi...

This new, revised edition of Kant's Prolegomena, the best introduction to the theoretical side of his philosophy, presents his thought clearly thro...

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Reducere. In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the nature of myth. Acknowledging the persuasive power of myth to create and inform culture, he weave...

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Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Mark BrakeNumber of pages: 216Collection: The Science ofPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 18Co...

Reducere. In these pages, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually wi...

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Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (aw...

The greatest challenge for physics is to combine its two most successful theories: general relativity and quantum mechanics. The resulting quantum ...

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A dazzling debut novel about a young woman's dark obsession with privilege, and how far she'll go to get it - from prizewinning Chinese American au...

Presents a wider science based on counterspace, which offers important new ways of understanding phenomena such as gravity and light, and which can...